Surprises, Good and Bad

Okay first the good surprise, my birthday is in two weeks. My husband has a beautiful plan for me. He suggested we go to a hotel for a night just so I can go swimming! You see, we moved into this housing development in December of 2003 with high hopes of a pool that was promised to be completed by Memorial Day 2004.

Well, it is August 1st, 2008 and all we have seen is a hole being dug and I have yet to have my pool dammit! Completely infuriating.

My birthday is on a Friday which I am super excited about. My friends and I are planning to go out for drinks after work and then Saturday Kip and I will be headed out for some long overdue pool/alone time.

Now for the not so good surprise. I have been at my current company for five and a half years and I got written up for the first time yesterday. For socializing. Yep, I can't even believe that they would even bother. I was talking to someone (about a work issue) and a tattletale, ummm person saw me having that conversation and decided that they were going to tell my boss. And because this person was very demanding I got written up.
I am good at my job I get my work done in a timely manner and I get written up for chatting. To say the least I was upset, I cried in front of my boss and to tell you the truth I really didn't care at that point. Being written up for that is stupid and I told him so. I asked him what was an acceptable amount of socializing and he didn't have an answer for me. But he did tell me to keep it to a minimum. I asked him what that meant and he said "hi, hello, how are you, and move on." I was trying very hard to keep my emotions under control because my tears were out of anger at that point. I felt betrayed by him and just lost. He wasn't given me any direction and the paper with the write-up on it said I could be terminated if it happens again. Terminated for talking? I don't think so. I am furious. When my boss came in today he couldn't even look me in the eye. I don't understand why I am this person's target all of a sudden and if I'm busy "socializing" then she should be written up for being a no-good, busy body. I would like to say worse things and did yesterday.

My friend Colleen took me out for coffee after work last night and listened to me vent. I just love her, she is an excellent listener and a great comfort to me. I felt so much better after that. Then I had a crazy dream as I was drifting off to sleep last night and "that no-good, busy body" decided she was going to show up at my birthday bar extravaganza. I told her some some choice things and all my friends and I all threw our drinks at her and ran her out of the bar. That made me feel better too. Maybe not the most mature thing to do, but it was a dream and we were drunk.

I went to work today and sat in my office like a good little girl and got my work done like I always do. I didn't socialize unless my friends came to me and even then I still "kept it to a minimum." What a joke.

I prayed for peace and a better attitude over and over today, because our company picnic is tomorrow and I think I will have a better attitude once I see all the animals at the zoo.